THURSDAY, JUNE 22

SESSION 9 -- Color, Texture, Specularities -- 8:00 -- 9:40

Co-chairs: Steven Shafer (CMU), Shree Nayar (Columbia)

• Results using random field models for the segmentation of color images of natural scenes, Dileep Panjwani (Irvine), Glenn Healey (Irvine).

• Color constancy under varying illumination, G. Finlayson (Simon Fraser), B. Funt (Simon Fraser), K. Barnard (Simon Fraser).

• On representation and matching of multi-coloured objects, J. Matas (Surrey), R. Marik (Surrey), J. Kittler (Surrey).

• Surface orientation and curvature from differential texture distortion, Jonas Garding (KTH).

• A theory of specular surface geometry, Michael Oren (Columbia), Shree Nayar (Columbia).

SESSION 10 -- Motion -- 10:10 -- 11:50

Co-chairs: Hans-Hellmut Nagel (Fraunhofer Institute), Ellen Hildreth (Wellesley)

• Motion analysis with a camera with unknown, and possibly varying intrinsic parameters, Thierry Vieville (INRIA), Olivier Faugeras (INRIA).

• Motion estimation with quadtree splines, Richard Szeliski (DEC), Heung-Yeung Shum (CMU)

• Monocular tracking of the human arm in 3D, Luis Goncalves (Caltech), Enrico Di Bernardo (Caltech, Padova), Enrico Ursella (Padova), Pietro Perona (Caltech, Padova).

• Hypergeometric filters for optical flow and affine matching, Yalin Xiong (CMU), Steven Shafer (CMU).

• Layered representation of motion video using robust maximum-likelihood estimation of mixture models and MDL encoding, Serge Ayer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Harpreet Sawhney (IBM).

SESSION 11 -- Learning, Modeling -- 1:30 -- 2:30

Co-chairs: Takashi Matsuyama (Kyoto), Joseph Mundy (GE)

• Probabilistic visual learning for object detection, Baback Moghaddam (MIT), Alex Pentland (MIT).

• Automatic generation of GRBF networks for visual learning, Sayan Mukherjee (Columbia), Shree Nayar (Columbia).

• Animat Vision: Active vision in artificial animals Demetri Terzopoulos (Toronto), Tamer Rabie (Toronto)

POSTER SESSION 3 -- Deformable Models, Surfaces, Learning, Geometry, Modeling, Analysis, Sensors, Active Vision -- 2:30 -- 4:30

• Gradient flows and geometric active contour models, Satyanad Kichenassamy (Minnesota), Arun Kumar (Minnesota), Peter Olver (Minnesota), Allen Tannenbaum (Minnesota), Anthony Yezzi (Minnesota)

• A snake for model-based segmentation, Petia Radeva (Barcelona), Joan Serrat (Barcelona), Enric Marti (Barcelona).

• Algorithms for implicit deformable models, Ross Whitaker (ECRC).

• Deformable Velcro(TM) surfaces, W. Neuenschwander (ETH), P. Fua (SRI), G. Szekely (ETH), O. Kubler (ETH).

• Adaptive shape evolution using blending, Douglas DeCarlo (Penn), Dimitri Metaxas (Penn).

• Topologically adaptable snakes, Tim McInerney (Toronto), Demetri Terzopoulos (Toronto).

• On multi-feature integration for deformable boundary finding, Amit Chakraborty (Yale), Marcel Worring (Amsterdam), James Duncan (Yale).

• Curve and surface smoothing without shrinkage, Gabriel Taubin (IBM).

• Surface geometry from cusps of apparent contours, Roberto Cipolla (Cambridge), Gordon Fletcher (Liverpool), Peter Giblin (Liverpool).

• Multiscale detection of curvilinear structures in 2d and 3d image data, Thomas Koller (ETH), G. Gerig (ETH), Gabor Szekely (ETH), Daniel Dettwiler (ETH).

• An integral approach to free-formed object modeling, Heung-Yeung Shum (CMU), Martial Hebert (CMU), Katsushi Ikeuchi (CMU), Raj Reddy (CMU).

• Recovering object surfaces from viewed changes in surface texture patterns, Peter Belhumeur (Yale), Alan Yuille (Harvard).

• A linear method for reconstruction from lines and points, Richard Hartley (GE).

• Site model acquisition and extension from aerial images, Robert Collins (UMass), Yong-Qing Cheng (UMass), Chris Jaynes (UMass), Frank Stolle (UMass), Xiaoquang Wang (UMass), Allen Hanson (UMass), Edward Riseman (UMass).

• Affine surface reconstruction by purposive viewpoint control, Kiriakos Kutulakos (Rochester)

• Estimating the tensor of curvature of a surface from a polyhedral approximation, Gabriel Taubin (IBM).

• Hierarchical statistical models for the fusion of multiresolution image data, J.M. Laferte (IRISA-INRIA), F. Heitz (ENSPOS-LSIIT), P. Perez (IRISA-INRIA), E. Fabre (IRISA-INRIA).

• Statistical learning, localization, and identification of objects, J. Hornegger (Erlangen), H. Niemann (Erlangen).

• Trilinearity of three perspective views and its associated tensor, Amnon Shashua (Hebrew), Michael Werman (Hebrew).

• Invariant of a pair of non-coplanar conics in space: Definition, geometric interpretation and computation, Long Quan (LIFIA-CNRS-INRIA).

• A comparison of projective reconstruction methods for pairs of views, C. Rothwell (INRIA), G. Csurka (INRIA), O. Faugeras (INRIA).

• A quantitative analysis of view degeneracy and its use for active focal length control, David Wilkes (Ontario Hydro), Sven Dickinson (Rutgers), John Tsotsos (Toronto).

• Rigidity checking of 3D point correspondences under perspective projection, Daniel McReynolds (UBC), David Lowe (UBC).

• On the geometry and algebra of the point and line correspondences between N images, Olivier Faugeras (INRIA), Bernard Mourrain (INRIA).

• Rendering real-world objects using view interpolation, Tomas Werner (Czech Technical Univ.), Roger Hersch (Ecole Polytechnique -- Lausanne), Vaclav Hlavac (Czech Technical Univ.).

• Determining wet surfaces from dry, Howard Mall, Jr. (Central Florida), Niels da Vitoria Lobo (Central Florida).

• Expected performance of robust estimators near discontinuities, Charles Stewart (RPI).

• Auxiliary variables for deformable modelscomputer vision problems, Laurent Cohen (CEREMADE).

• Improving laser triangulation sensors using polarization, J. Clark (Heriot-Watt), E. Trucco (Heriot-Watt), H.-F. Cheung (Lancaster).

• Better optical triangulation through spacetime analysis, Brian Curless (Stanford), Marc Levoy (Stanford).

• Real-time focus range sensor, Shree Nayar (Columbia), Masahiro Watanabe (Hitachi), Minori Noguchi (Hitachi).

• Active fixation using attentional shifts, affine resampling, and multiresolution search, A.L. Abbott (Virginia Tech), B. Zheng (Virginia Tech)

• Calibration-free visual control using projective invariance, Gregory Hager (Yale).

• Annular symmetry operators: A method for locating and describing objects, M. Kelly (McGill), M. Levine (McGill).

SESSION 12 -- Representations, Geometry -- 4:30 -- 5:30

Co-chairs: Luc van Gool (Lueven), Alan Yuille (Harvard)

• COSMOS - A representation scheme for free-form surfaces, Chitra Dorai (Michigan State), Anil Jain (Michigan State).

• Epipole and fundamental matrix estimation using virtual parallax, Boubakeur-Seddik Boufama (LIFIA-INRIA), Roger Mohr (LIFIA-INRIA).

• Robust detection of degenerate configurations for the fundamental matrix, Philip Torr (Oxford), Andrew Zisserman (Oxford), Stephen Maybank (Oxford).

Open Houses -- MIT AI Lab, MIT Media Lab, CBR -- 5:30 -- 9:00